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		Tobu on May 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs Here's the bug [1]; apparently someone made it so on purpose [2]. In related issues, I'd like switch to tab to be consistent so that ctrl-clicking on an awesomebar result always opens it in a new tab, instead of depending on whether it found a tab or not. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1479858 [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1287866

TheArcane on May 14, 2020 [–]

> apparently someone made it so on purpose [2]

This is terribly unfortunate, given that there are many active bugs associated with this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1479858 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1500991 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1538069

I've read the thread you linked and I still don't understand their reasoning for this.

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